Protection of rights of the child in light of Polish Constitution of 1997 — normative frames

Abstract

Protection of rights of the child has gained a very strong legal foundation, constituted by international as well as national law. The provisions of Constitution granted the formal legal basis to the protection of rights of the child, and they also introduced the legal duties of public authorities to respects these provisions, as well as to observe the norms of international law which are concerned with the protection of the child and family. It is correct to say that contemporarily the protection of rights of the child specifically and visibly affects the functioning of the whole legal system the main assumption of which is the obligation to take into account “the good of the child” in the process of creation and application of law.